Re: [HACKERS] Does initdb -e is working ? (Latest dev. snapshot)

On 2000-01-29, Oleg Bartunov mentioned:

> One problem: I tried initdb -e koi8 and it doesn't works - 

> createdb -E koi8 works as expected:

> I found -e for initdb , -E for createdb options for specifying encoding a 
> little bit confused - why not just use one of them !

That's exactly why initdb uses -E as well now. But I see now it doesn't
reject invalid args because it interprets them as data directory. Will
fix.

Next time: initdb -? or initdb --help.

> Is't possible to change encoding of database except dump/destroydb/createdb
> cycle ? Is't worth to have pg_encoding to do this ?

pg_encoding is just a tools that maps encoding names to codes and vice
versa.


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